This Article seeks to identify core values necessary for future professionals and the need to ensure that legal education incorporates such learning objectives in order to foster this development. The traditional curriculum ...

This Comment intends to highlight the problems of this growing leviathan and provide solutions to combat this usurpation of power by the regulatory agencies. This Comment will proceed in the following order: first, it ...

Mixed jurisdictions have been called “the third legal family” by Louisiana scholar Vernon V. Palmer. Although Palmer admits there is “no single paradigm” to mixity, mixed jurisdictions are generally legal systems characterized ...

In Kingsley v. Hendrickson, Kingsley brought an action against his jailers, alleging excessive force in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Kingsley sought reversal of a verdict for respondents on ...

One of the first topics that law students learn in their federal civil procedure course is “in personam jurisdiction” or “personal jurisdiction”––i.e., the basis for which courts may render a judgment against a person. ...

It is great to be here with you all today, especially among a group of students, administrators, and faculty at a Catholic institution concerned about social justice. As a lifelong Catholic raised by my mom and dad, I ...

This Article focuses on two lawsuits that challenged the major contributors to the coastal land loss that caused Hurricane Katrina to trigger widespread destruction of property, lives, and neighborhoods. At the heart of ...

In recent years, tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador have fled to the United States. Most have experienced “horrendous trauma” as a result of swelling gang activity, drug ...

"[M]isunderstandingsand neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence."In November of 2006, the residents of Michigan went to ...